BB's next job (a.k.a. Steve Belichick's next next job)
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This is the most publicity Bridgewater State has ever gotten. (The university, not the nuthouse.)
That whole thing is really weird and kind of gross. Bill was 48 years old when this woman was born. If they're both truly happy and on the same page, mazel tov.
I don't know why anyone cares about this. If Bill spent the next 25 years sleeping with strippers and doing drugs with them, I'd be fine with it. He ain't the coach of the team anymore, and if he wants to go out and have his fun at his age, and she's into him, it doesn't even faze me.
I mean, we're on a site dedicated to a team whose owner is married to (and has kids with) a woman 30 years younger than him, and I almost never hear anything about that. Bill was divorced 18 years ago, stepped right back into a long term relationship and is now out there enjoying life, and she seems to be on board with it. Let them be. He also has a weird love for Halloween, which I think is so awesome as it's just one of those things you don't see coming.
I mean, we're on a site dedicated to a team whose owner is married to (and has kids with) a woman 30 years younger than him, and I almost never hear anything about that. Bill was divorced 18 years ago, stepped right back into a long term relationship and is now out there enjoying life, and she seems to be on board with it. Let them be. He also has a weird love for Halloween, which I think is so awesome as it's just one of those things you don't see coming.
Who is "fazed" by Bill's relationship? Seems to me as if your "not caring" has outworded every single post who thinks this is a little weird combined.
To paraphrase something said on Toucher & Hardy this AM: If I was in that situation I probably could have been talked in to being the mermaid.
You literally said it gave you the creeps, it was further described as weird, transactional and gross.
I think my point was pretty clear. I don't understand those reactions, but I'm sorry if the word count "fazed" you again.
I have not listened to every episode but I like this one where BB does his version of like the All Madden Team
View: https://youtu.be/xnAcGtIrrjU?si=dyzIKN8qjQR2sGMj
View: https://youtu.be/xnAcGtIrrjU?si=dyzIKN8qjQR2sGMj
Bill was asked on McAfee about the Bears game and Drake Maye. He starts with backhanded compliments to Maye, saying he did some nice things "scrambling and running around" and off play action "where they can separate the defense when Stevenson can get it going". That section lasted literally 5 seconds before he quickly pivoted to "to me, the bigger thing is about where the Bears are" and then he spent five minutes shitting on their roster building and organization. Lol. What a fraud.
What exactly was he incorrect on? The Bears are about to fire their coach and have been a dumpster fire. The Pats are in stage 1 of an extensive rebuild. The Bears story is more interesting to everybody except for maybe Pats fans. The bitterness in this thread is weird.
I dont think BB is dumb. But McAfee is a forum that DEMANDS dumb, so BB plays along. I think we all would like to see BB really dissect games and plays, because it would probably be great. McAfee's is not the place for that. I dont know what is, though. Bottom line is that I think BB is enjoying the intellectual slumming.
Bitterness toward something you used to really care about is weird?
Hmmm..
I kid, I kid!
Nicely done. The pettiness is becoming a bit much. He was treated badly, I think, but he didn't get fired coming of a few 12-win seasons. The team was in the tank and his player development was anemic. Control what you can and if you want to be on the airwaves constantly, use it to educate people about the league and the game, not take swipes or selectively criticize. Unless it's the Jets. In which case, go nuts.
He could spend more than literal 5 seconds on the team he coached for 24 years? But they won, right, so it doesn’t matter. But it sure mattered when they were losing and Bill really felt for the players getting called out as soft. Fraud. He was specifically asked about Drake Maye’s development and couldn’t even pretend to give actual analysis.
10000000% agree. The selective ignorance of people who want to deify BB is really something.
The guy is a petty asshole. I’m not sure he would even dispute that.
His whole “I feel bad they were called soft” routine was really fucking something. Everything we’ve ever heard about Belichick is that he’s a complete fucking dick in meetings and when going over tape (“the QB at fucking Foxboro High could complete that”), but somehow Mayo was out of bounds? Because he said players played soft in one game? Come on
It’s bitter that people want more than 5 seconds of analysis of a rookie QB is weird? Really?
BB will eventually find a new job, break the Shula record, then retire. In the meantime we need to get used to his BS, because he isn't going away, and literally the entire world outside of New England loves hearing him rip the Patriots. We won't be done with him until he either dies or walks away from football - and I don't think he is doing either willingly.
As it is his behavior is of the sort that you basically try to ignore when you go home for the holidays.
As it is his behavior is of the sort that you basically try to ignore when you go home for the holidays.
Belichick kept his comments for players with the players and team. Mayo was speaking to the media. Big difference, and no inconsistency on Belichick's part calling out Mayo there because I think he truly believes that kind of stuff should be kept inside the walls.
Agree to disagree. I think he was playing for sympathy and sticking up for people he drafted (while also completely overlooking the fact that Mayo clearly meant for that game).
Basically, Belichick is a completely unreliable narrator when it comes to the Patriots. Belichick the coach would absolutely despise Belichick the media member
BB never said anything bad about players publicly. Ever. Even the other team. The exception is that one receiver on the Eagles that he hated.
So never at any point in this season has Jerod Mayo given Bill any reason whatsoever to say something positive about his performance after a game? Because he hasn't done that. I mean, just for instance, the whole Schooler as spy stuff sounds like something Bill would have come up with, no mention of that but 5+ minutes on how the Bears suck? If you want to be a national commentator you can't approach the league through a lens of personal spite. Not to mention, it's so transparent how vicious he is in going after the people running the organizations he might have some interest in were the HC/GM spots to open up. You can take his appearance yesterday as a big "how I'd fix the Bears". I think it's beyond petty, a horrible look.
The Pats are irrelevant. They had a good Week 1 win and have then beat 2 teams with coaches that were / are going to be fired. They’ve lost to the Jags and Titans, two teams I’m sure he ignores too. Maye has been fine, not bad and not otherworldly. The rest of their roster is boring. He’s not working for NESN, he doesn’t have to kowtow to the whims of New England fans.
Completely agree that the Pats are irrelevant.
But what makes the Bears relevant? Just because Da Bears?
I was specifically responding to the contention that Belichick was an asshole who called out players, and pointing out that he never called them out to the media, which is what he criticized Mayo for. I have no idea about anything else as I haven't seen Belichick once since the draft coverage show IIRC. (I'm consuming very little NFL these days and only follow the league by reading this forum and I've only watched about 1/2 the Pats games.)
The Bears were in the playoffs conversation last week and really should be better if they had a competent coach. They are much more relevant than the Patriots.
This thread sounds like jilted lovers, most of you wanted BB gone and are now upset that he isn't talking about a shitty team whose only bright spot is a QB (who I have hope for), but hasn't done anything amazing.
Bill is the one behaving in the dictionary definition of a jilted lover, not the ones calling him out on his weekly transparent self serving crusade across 29 different shows and podcasts. It's simple, if the Pats are irrelevant and there's no reason to talk about them or Drake Maye (even when direclty prompted to do so), then don't talk about them whey they lose or when Mayo says something to the media either.
You realize "no reason to talk about them" isn't literal. There is very little reason to talk about them to be more precise. I don't think that is controversial. And it's what he has largely done given the 29 different shows he's on. Of course, whenever he talks about the Patriots, it's going to be amplified on a board dedicated to the Patriots.
At the same time, the BB critics here when he criticizes them he's accused of being a jilted lover and when he praises them he's accused of trying to play his draft picks or whatever up. So you're setting up the game to win whichever way it goes.
At the same time, the BB critics here when he criticizes them he's accused of being a jilted lover and when he praises them he's accused of trying to play his draft picks or whatever up. So you're setting up the game to win whichever way it goes.
Ok so based on this play and some other good ones you want BB to do what? This is the national media, the Pats are irrelevant.
I wonder if BB may be consciously distancing himself a bit from the NEPs. He wants to coach again.
It's like the new fella at work who starts every work-related conversation with "Well we used to do this..." where "we" is his former company. Maybe BB doesn't want to be that guy and clearly wants to show he's moved beyond NE and actually knows the league. That plus he feels jilted a bit
It's like the new fella at work who starts every work-related conversation with "Well we used to do this..." where "we" is his former company. Maybe BB doesn't want to be that guy and clearly wants to show he's moved beyond NE and actually knows the league. That plus he feels jilted a bit
I don’t have a huge problem with Bill not praising the Pats and even less so with him avoiding talking too much about them entirely, but I definitely sense a reluctance to praise Maye that I find annoying. Seems clear he would not have picked him at 3 and also increasingly each week like that would have been a terrible choice.
A topic for another thread, but replace Mac with current Drake Maye on the much reviled 2022 team and I think they make and win a playoff game. I’m even unconvinced they wouldn’t have won 6-7 more games last year.
A topic for another thread, but replace Mac with current Drake Maye on the much reviled 2022 team and I think they make and win a playoff game. I’m even unconvinced they wouldn’t have won 6-7 more games last year.
BB is a sports news commentator on a show hosted by a douche bro in a tank top; being a petty asshole and making passive aggressive "analysis" is his job. And he has proven while coaching that he is a petty asshole who thought he was smarter than everyone else, so he's on brand and doing his job.
Well from Bill's perspective, talking about any team other than the Patriots is important. He may be trying to avoid being typecast as a Patriots commentator, rather than an NFL/Football commentator.
Chicago is also a potential job opening. Similarly, he routinely trashed Philadelphia's coaching staff earlier this year.
I heard him early in the season breaking down a Falcons game and somehow managing to work in how awful Rich McKay is and how he got them docked draft picks for tampering. You'd sure never catch Bill losing draft picks. It's actually kind of adorable in its way but for anyone who followed the Pats this century to deny in any way that Bill Belichick is petty and makes things personal is certainly a choice.
You're approaching this conversation, where Belichick was asked about a game where the Patriots won, as if everyone is talking about the producers of the show and what they want to talk about.
We are talking about a segment where Belichick was specifically asked about the Patriots-Bears game and then spent very little time talking about the team that won. I don't know how it's controversial to wonder why he spent very little time analyzing the team that won when specifically asked about the game that they played in.
The conversation isn't about the national media and why they don't talk about the Patriots a lot, hell this isn't even a conversation wondering why Belichick didn't talk about the Patriots in a rundown of a random week, it's about why he specifically chose to not talk about them after a win when he has previously talked about them more after losses or after Jerod Mayo quotes
Yeah, it sure is annoying when someone acts like a dick for no reason. I usually just ignore people like that.
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